Well I’m sure Apple is not quaking in it’s iPhone having boots, but Openmoko has released a developer/alpha version of it’s free (as in liberty) phone the Neo 1973. Unique for being not just free software but free hardware as well - they’ve gone out of their way to choose fully documented components and have [...]

Categories: free software · gear · hardware · smartphones

So, I was looking over techmeme last night and came across its link to this article on Slacker. It’s a pretty interesting service that aims to be a lot like Last.fm/Pandora in that you can specify songs you like and it will create playlists from it’s library (of 2 million songs) and stream them to [...]

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Found this post about one man’s search for his next compact camera. I recently went through this search several months ago with almost the exact same situation. I have been a follower of the Canon S line - S30, S40 to S80 and loved it. Especially for it’s time those were the best camera’s. It [...]

Categories: gear · photography · review

When will it finally be feasible to purchase this Infrant NV+ for home use? Will hard drive technology catch up to our increasing media requirements so that we can grab one of these boxes and be able to back up a bunch of stuff (acounting for loss of space for raid 1 or 5)? Or [...]

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